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I know most discussions here are regarding US employment law but I am hoping someone has knowledge to assist (HRBth?) I have an acquaintance in Ontario. He entered Canada on a temporary ciotizen visa
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Canadian citizenship
posted at 3/12/2012 10:00 PM EDT
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I know most discussions here are regarding US employment law but I am hoping someone has knowledge to assist (HRBth?) I have an acquaintance in Ontario. He entered Canada on a temporary ciotizen visa (I guess that is what it is called) and worked for a local employer in Ontario as a Chef. His employer was to help him with the paperwork to obtain full Canadian citizenship. Unfortunately the employer has apparently decided not to pursue this as the administration is too daunting. My acquaintance has now lost his job as a result. He is uncertain as to his legal status and understands he must be employed in order to obtain full citizenship. Are you aware of any resources that could assist him in staying in Canada and obtaining citizenship? Is their a government agency he can go to? Any assistance or advice you could send my way is appreciated. |
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Re: Canadian citizenship
posted at 3/14/2012 9:15 AM EDT
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In Response to Canadian citizenship: Obtaining Canadian citizenship can be a long and arduous process. What your friend really needs right now is landed immigrant status (very much like the US green card). As a landed immigrant your friend can work wherever he wants in Canada at whatever he wants and enjoy all the rights and entitlements Canadian citizens get (including 21st century state of the art medicare!), except he won't be allowed to vote, and he probably won't be allowed to get a Canadian passport. And after being what we call "landed" for a few years, obtaining citizenship is really just a formality-type process. The key here is that the road to citizenship is always via landed status. It sounds to me like your friend's erstwhile employer didn't really understand these rules, because if it did, it would have known that your friend could not have come here to work without having landed status first. (And if your friend already had landed status, you wouldn't be posting here.) When this employer found out it had broken the law by bringing your friend here before acquiring landed status for him, it decided to back out of the entire situation, leaving your friend stranded in a foreign country with an illegal immigrant status. What your friend can do about this is to research Canada's immigration laws in detail to see if there's something he can do himself about becoming landed. The place to go to do this research is www1.servicecanada.gc.ca. Good luck to your friend! |
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Re: Canadian citizenship
posted at 3/14/2012 9:21 AM EDT
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I just noticed your reference to a "temporary citizen visa" - there's no such thing. However there is something called a "temporary work permit" and that is permission to work for one employer, doing one type of job, for a fixed term (usually less than a year but sometimes more - but always with an end date). Temp work permits are not renewable. What probably happened is your friend's temp work permit expired and the restaurant decided it couldn't be bothered applying for landed status on his behalf. Or it discovered that "chef" is not a profession that's eligible for landed status. (Some jobs are eligible - auto mechanic is extremely eligible, and HR hasn't been on the eligibility list for decades.  )
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Re: Canadian citizenship
posted at 3/14/2012 2:04 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Canadian citizenship: Thank you hrbth. I'll share this info and verify the type of Visa he has. Hopefully it is not the latter. His fiancee would be quite disappointed I am sure. Posted by HRPro Is the fiance Canadian? HRBTH if she is and he marries can that lead to citizenship? |
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Re: Canadian citizenship
posted at 3/14/2012 2:55 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Canadian citizenship: In Response to Re: Canadian citizenship : Is the fiance Canadian? HRBTH if she is and he marries can that lead to citizenship? Posted by howard7 It can, as long as she's an actual citizen and not just landed. It's a long process too, however, and often the newly-married immigrant isn't allowed to work for quite some time. |
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Re: Canadian citizenship
posted at 3/14/2012 2:57 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Canadian citizenship: Thank you hrbth. I'll share this info and verify the type of Visa he has. Hopefully it is not the latter. His fiancee would be quite disappointed I am sure. Posted by HRPro If he didn't have a temp work permit and yet was still working legally in Canada, then he is landed. If he's landed he doesn't have a problem - he can work anywhere he wants, he just can't vote. And he doesn't have to go through a long citizenship process, he just has to wait for a few years to pass by. |
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